The Corralitas Red Car Property was a private right-of-way through Silver Lake (Los Angeles) for the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar. The “Big Red Cars” ran until 1955 when the Glendale Line was decommissioned for freeway construction. For almost 40 years, a series of developers tried and failed to develop the Corralitas Red Car Property. It's not a park, it just looks like one.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Photo: Smith Family Archive, November 1961. The State Route 2 Freeway (SR 2) was built through our neighborhood between the 5 Freeway & the SR 2 Freeway Terminus in 1960 to 1962. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Expect a lot more northbound night time traffic on Allesandro Street.

After 6 PM yesterday,Peter Jones, from CalTrans, sent out a press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SR-2 TERMINUS PROJECT Phase 1B

Soundwall Construction – Oak Glen Place to El Moran
Way

CITY OF LOS ANGELES - State of California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), in conjunction with community councils, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) & Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) as part of Phase 1B will start construction on the soundwall.

Thursday, March 12, through Friday, March 13

Northbound SR-2

8 p.m. to 6 a.m. – Up to two lanes between Glendale Blvd SR-2 & Golden State Freeway I-5

Detours
will be posted. Peterson-Chase Construction is the contractor on this
$8.6 million project which is expected to complete in early 2016.

So all the years of wrangling over redesigning the SR 2 Freeway Terminus have come down to building sound walls on Allesandro Street between Oak Glen & El Moran (just south of Rosebud) for about $8.6 million. But if you live above the line of sight and/or more than 75 feet away from the 10-12' tall sound wall, it will do no good whatsoever. Thanks for the 25 hour notice on a project that will take a year to build - hopefully.Click here for all our sound wall related posts.

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Community Residents’ Association for Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1997 by our Silver Lake neighborhood. We are dedicated to acquisition and preservation of the Corralitas Red Car Property as a park in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
Contact: redcarproperty@gmail.com

Community Residents’ Association for Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1997 by our Silver Lake neighborhood. We are dedicated to acquisition and preservation of the Corralitas Red Car Property as a park in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.